Hair-clipper



.V. N|COS|A .HAIR CLIPPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1919.

Patented Sept. 7,1920.

. INVENTOR'. WQWAW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT NICOSIA, OF WACO, TEXAS.

Application filed March 29, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT NIOOSIA, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Clippers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hair clippers and in such connection it re lates more particularly to a protector or attachment for hair clippers.

The ordinary hair clipper has a flat bottom plate with teeth or knives with reciprocating upper teeth, the clipper being held against the head or neck to keep the teeth in proper alinement with the hair, and this plate while ordinarily effective in a hair clipper, quite frequently causes the clippers to dig into the hair or abrase the persons skin.

T he principal object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described which will allow the clippers to ride smoothly over the hair or skin and thus obviate the above mentioned difficulty.

Another object of my invention to provide an attachment of the character described which is very simple, effective, and cheaply manufactured.

I provide a metal plate arranged to slip on the clippers, leaving the teeth of the clippers exposed say one quarter of an inch or more. The plate has a plurality of small rollers differing in diameter in order to provide a slant, so that the clippers maintain a correct angle to the hair and ride easily over same during the cutting operation.

My invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming art hereof in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of my invention, partly sectioned.

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view looking toward the curved portion of the device.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a bottom View of a pair of Specification of Letters Patent.

HAIR-CLIPPER.

Patented Sept. 7, 1920.

Serial No. 288,121.

clippers embodying my invention, the handles partly broken away.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a pair of hair clippers embodying my invention, the handles of the clippers partly broken away, showing my protector 2 attached to the bottom plate of the clippers. The protector ."Z is construii ted of some light metal and has its inner end l semicircular and the sides 5-5 bent upward and slightly inward as. shown at F i2, so that when the attachment is slipped on over the bottom plate 3 of the clippers there is sullicient resiliency in the sides to hold the device firmly in place.

The protector has channels slits 6-6 (see Fig. extending across the bottom thereof wherein is placed small wires 7. the wires being threaded through small tulnilar rollers S and 9 and fastened to the outside of the sides 5-5 by solder or otherwise.

The roller 9 next the teeth of the clippers is slightly smaller than roller 8 in order that an angle of inclination may be provided to allow of proper alinement to the vhair. lVhile I have shown only two rollers, any desired number may l e used, each of different diameter to allow of srulicient slant to the clippers.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as anddesire to secure by lietters tent, is-

In a device of the character described, in combination with a hair clijper, of a detachable metal plate having a plurality of :unallv tubular rollers of different diameters set in slits in and extending across the surface of the plate, the roller or rollers next the han dles of said clipper being larger than those following in the ratio to provide a good cutting angle to the hair, the sides of'said plate having suitable flanges to attach the device to the clippers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

VINCENT NICOSIA. 

